Wednesday, January 21, 2009
Tricky Dick
Posted by Noah Bonaparte Pais on Wed, Jan 21, 2009 at 6:24 PM
Author, civil rights pillar, cancer survivor and damn-funny standup Dick Gregory speaks at Xavier University tonight at 6:30 p.m. as part of the Martin Luther King Jr. Week for Peace. Since the early ’60s, when he was among the first black comedians to gain acceptance — or even applause — from majority white audiences, Gregory has wielded his barbed wit as a means of delivering biting social commentary and calls for racial equality. He went on to run for mayor of Chicago in 1967 (losing to Richard Daley) and president in 1968 (as one of the Freedom and Peace Party’s write-in candidates), garnering more than 47,000 votes and appearing on some ballots with David Frost as his running mate. Among his punchier punch lines is this laugher, from a 1961 routine that led to a gig at Hugh Hefner’s Chicago Playboy Club: “Last time I was down south I walked into this restaurant and this white waitress came up to me and said, ‘We don't serve colored people here.’ I said, ‘That’s alright, I don’t eat colored people. Bring me a whole fried chicken.’”
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